The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 12, 1896, Page 19

4 3 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 1896. 19 sut 9 o’clock of a fine spring three h med, while letown stage, were discon- e a lad lei afoot, wide zs and oat giv- joy with orning filled y due from v feared that be too near even thoug would be far wasto bes > be done. The mountain air ike that give: his soul. For thest first appearance v green mountain an innocent yoxel, lking and on of a sense three men and that eport wh I ade to the ott of the kind; hi i have revealed as ge and medium estinga as of midc rong and pa the others call Tom. 1 down the grade, un- dangy into d which ¢ with the h a spring of Ca wer splend mo so fierc e coast mouuntain b to and in. The dainty ild lilac strove for mas- e of the ceano- e blossoms of the rom tall trees which the der to the sun- depth of a h filled the blue of gleamed gh the trees. 1 the wine of the increasing vigor in of those pro- hose secrets no hu- ate, the intoxication a spot in the hiding-plac netr: men were cor paraliel wit its lowe. he urged ti up the grade. Th knowledge of an uncommon zmount of reasure in the express-bo 1 the sim- t of a countr pening ! time of all ot ot to be permitted to dash their bright pros. pects to the gro boy bri the minds ey ground the =i need not be the teeth niarged upon ther to seize, bind and gas the o him into the woods till the ed was done, or to slip a knife quietly between his ribs where he stood and drop his body on the lower side of the log, or to force him to assist in the enter- prise—doubtless all these matters were considered. More than likely the free roung life would have been let out in ference to all other plans had not the ader made an extraordinary discovery and taken an unexpected course. Wkile his companions were fingering their knives impatiently the man called Tom was regarding the lad with a calm and piercing scrutiny. med, “the boy’s an idiot “Well, I']l be d—"!"" replied the short, nervous man called Jim. *‘That makesit easy. DIl slit his windpipe and —" Jim was in the act of springing forward to carry out his purpose, when the leader ing him thus, asa cat w a mouse, he said, with awe in his thro: No man that ever murdered an idiot since the world was born has stepped out of this life with his boots off "’ The awe of his manner and the firmness of it suppressed the nervous Jim at once t shiver through theslender “I’ll attend to the boy,” ‘This was simply because the nld ced to the legs ofa | third, whom | his arm in an iron grip, and hold- | to talk in his simple, straight- ndly way on of the her function, and finally a face. Then he zave i ad been telling him about the great fun which h nd ends were goin s to have. 2 e was coming up the grade; | ey were goit | throw up the driver wc fles would be to jump out into the road, ifles and point them, so; 1d pull up his k fired just to n the driver wo d then go on his eatest fun in the world! The picture most i | boy, albeit several repetiti quired before he counld meaning. When he f v did, after in- terrupting it: a number of with vacant I Ti a | that, the boy had seen the sheen and | heard the tinkle of the money, and it is | bred in human_bones to love the beauty | and music of it. So when the robbers sprang for their rifles they were dismayed | to tind the boy in possession of one. An | effort on the owner’s part to snatch it from | the lad’s hands only made the idiot leap backward with flashing eyes and bring the weapon menacingly toward his shoulder. Tom tried his old tactics of wheedling and play, but something in the boy had gone awry—the excitement and turmoil, the tiring of the rifles, the sheen and music | of the coin and the possession o a bright, strong gun that felt heavy and substan- tial In his hands, had given his unor- ganized wits a distorted activity and filled | his blood with fire; and all that was what wiser men than these might have ex- pected. Tom’s decision and action were prompt. “Let the fool keep the gun,” he mu tered. *‘We must hurry.” | “Come and et it. We are going away. Good-by, Luny. You're a good gboy. I want to play with you to-morrow.”’ The men then started to saunter indiffer- ently away, Tom and Jim taking their rifles; but no. “Drop ’em!” demanded the idiot. want guns.” ‘“Let’s drop ’em,” said Tom under his | breath. “We have our knives left, and the fool holds the drop on us.” They laid therifles alongside the money, 53 and with jolly laughter and amusing antics—an exercise led by Tom—they went trippine away, the boy guffawing heartily | at their pranks. The men melted awa; | into the woods, and the idiot advanced, alert and cautious and carrying his rifle | ready for action. 5 | Thus he crept to the pile of money. His slavering lips and retreatingchin twitched and writhed under the highest excitement of which he was capable, and his eyes, while still darting suspicious glances in the direction of the spot where the men had passed from view, were neveriheless blazing with a greed for money, “Boys,” said Tom when they had gone beyond the idiot's bearing, “‘there are only two thingsieft. Ina few minutes the stage will reach the summit station, where there is a telephone, and immediatety afterward hunting parties will leave every town in the mountains within a radius of twenty miles. It must be quick and des- erate Work now, Or everything is lost. The-two things that are left for us are these: As we have nothing to shoot with we must either slip round, get above the fool and roll down a bowlder on him, and take slim chances on its striking him, or fiome of us must creep up and give him the knife.” **And kill him ?” asked Dick, the young- | est man, in alarm. S | “No!” quickly exclaimed the leader. | “Cripple him; if not with a knife, then with a club; but a knife is better, because to use a club you’ll have to get arm-free- dom and so make a noise.” There was a touch of the ludicrous in the helpiess look of the two younger men, but the face of the elder was dark and serious and malignant. “D'li atiend to the boy,” he quietly said. The idiot was sitting on the ground, the rifle across his legs and his hands engzaged in laving in the beautiful pile of metal between his feet. in a simple riot of pleasurable emotions. | Gradually his wariness relaxed, and with | & subsidence of the turmoil which had bt his blood boiling came a more pas- | sive mood and that desire for repose which satiety creates. The robbers had discovered the prudence to take away the sacks which had held the coin, but the idiot, moved by that instinct of acquisition ich represented his herit- age of the ages, began to stow the treas- ure in his pockets. In order to do this he had to sacritice some of the queer odds and ends which he had assembled there—such as strings, bright stones, nails and wild nuts. This brought a struggle upon him. Painfully he weighed these cherisned pos- sessions against the sparkling gold and silver, and with many a sigh relinquished this string and that stone. | He discovered that with all the sacrifices | which he could make there wasstill insutfi- | ! Ao e el S e e NDIT AND THE IDIOT FACE TO FACE. ““Ugh, huh!’ he cried. “I like that. Heap o' fun! Huh, huh, huh! gun—bang! Wow, how, how !’ right, taen,” said Tom. Shoot the ‘“Here co a stick); ‘‘it is your gun. You point it when we point ours; you shoot when we | shoot. What’s your name?” “Luny,” slabbered the boy over his thick tongue. Tom drew him into the thicket where the others were concealed. For a moment the boy seemed apprehensive when brought into the presence of Jim and Dick, but hey took up the cue given by Tom, and ) kind and reassuring words welcomed tke boy and made him feel at ease. The stage slowly climbed the grade, the horses laboring heavily and snorting at intervals. The driver, all unsnspecting, urged them forward with word and whip- crack. Suddenly four forms leaved into tie road at bis horses’ heads; one seized a bridle, and two others, one on either side, held the driver covered with rifles, while a fourth, shambling about with great un- certainty, brandished a stick which he carried, made feints of shooting with it, | and Janghed and crowed delightedly. i With the demand to throw down the box | came a shot from one of the robbers. The | driver dropped the lines and sat pale, silentand distressed. A woman'’s scream issued from the interior of tie stage, and it | was answered with a raking volley and a | command to keep heads within or get | them blown to eternal torment. | . The box soon fell wi into the road. To o provide against the pos- | sibility of a trick tne Dissen getn wite vors dered out, stood in line, searched and | Tobbed, and the interior and boot of the | stage were examined. Then the passen- gers were ordered back and the driver directed sharply to proceed on his way. | Assoon as the staze was gone the rob- | bers dragzed the box over the log and | broke it open with an ax. The treasure , which they expected to find was all THE BA A 3 1 tions, he became greatly excited and | entered heartily into the spirit of the en- terprise. s the stage. Take this” (handing him | th a heayy thump | boy might prove less dangerous as an | there—bags of gold and silver coin. Still acquaintance than as a possibly intruding | fearing a trick, they opened the bags and stranger. 5 | ran their fingers” through the shining With that Tom stepped boldly into the | metal; it was sound and beautiful and the road, masked and armed as he was, snd‘ directly approached the lad. | “Hello, my son,” said he in a cherrvy sweetest music rang in its tinkle, hastily tied up the parcels and | pick up their rifles and forest which filled They prepared to escape into the the voice, *‘don’t you want some fun?” | canyon and The lad turned with a quick start, and blanketed the mountain slopes, and tind fear appeared in his dull face. His scant | waiting horses tethered in a gulch not far chin dropped, his mouth opened, his eyes | away. 5 regarded the formidable apparition with a | But an unexpected thing had happened. Eyevul‘arhmnr. and every muscle in his | They had given no heed whatever to the body was on & strain for instant exercise ' idiot boy, who was dancing and capering in flight. But the stranger’s voice was so | about in the finest giee. Discovering that round and friendly and his manner so free | his mock weapon was inferior in beauty to and _bearty and masterful that, despite & | the polished rifles of his new friends,” he forbidding outward aspect, the lad was ] had appropriated the one belonging to drawn under his power. As the man con- | Dick, the tall young novice. More than They sprang forward with the money and two rifles, but an uncanny cry behind | them made them pause and look back. The idiot was now terribly excited and | was pursuinz them. When they halted | he also came to a stand, and with a threat | in the holding of his rifle shouted : “Money! I want money! Drop it. I | want it.” | " The case was serious, for every moment | was precious and there was a law that { made highway robbery a hanging crime. | Jim, the mercurial one, ignoring the warn- | ing and authority of his leader, dropped bringing up his rifle to shoot thelad, when the incredible happened—his quicker an- | tazonist disarmed him with a bullet in the shoulder. The three desperate men now realized that they had an enemy more formidabla than the bravest order of cautions sanity— | that most uncommon and terrible of things, the angry madness of an idiot; | and every moment lost meant the nearer | approach of baying bloodhounds of the | law, with sharp eyes and noses and with | teeth that could inflict a fatal bite 500 yards away. Jim was not badly hurt. It was only a slight flesh wound, but it gnawed him with bitter pangs. Each of the three men knew that the slightest movement to shoot would be anticipated with a shot, and as all were amazed to discover that the lad | could shoot at all and were ignorant of the extent of his skill, to offer open battle | meant the probable death of one. And | they clearly saw that the idiot had an in- stinct of self-preservation. Worst of all, he was absolutely devoid of fear; the gold- wine in his blood had made him fierce and terrible. It was not a human being | that confronted them, but a ferocious | beast whose instinctive cunning was made | more potent by that substratum of the human quality in which cunning predom- inates. Tom was a man of resources, but for a while he was perplexed by the extra- ordinary character of the situation. “Boys,” suid he, “it’s no use to fight. The devil is in that grinning fool and he | has the drop on us. No more breaks like | the one you made, Jim. Guns are useless here. Leave this case to me. called Tom, ‘“‘what are you shooting for? You want money? Plenty money. See!” He held aloft the heavy bag which he car- ried and slowly poured its contents on the ground,whither the coins fell in a glistening stream, giving clattering evidence of their impact. The boy laughed aloud and moved toand fro with the stealth and soft- ness of a leopard. “You, too, pour out!” he shouted to Jim and Dick. Rueful and wondering they complied, after the leader had commanded them so t Sav, Luny,” o do. | “Here it is, Luny,” called the leader | his load of mouney and was in the act of | cient room in his pockets for the money. He couid not bear to leave a single coin, so | entrancing was every one of them. It was | a long time before he hit upon the idea of puiling out his shirt to use as an apron and filling it with the plunder. But finally il this was done, and every coin had been snugly provided for. When he attempted to rise he discovered that the weight of the money was too great for his strength. Again and again did he essay the task, straining his muscles to the last limit and groaning with the pains of his burden. 1t was while he was thus struggling that he suddenly became alert and apprehen- sive again, and raised his head in a listen- ing attitude. He was very quiet, moving not at all. A mental effort was going on with slow and tedious progress, for the passing of his excitement had reduced his capacity for complex comprehension, and his memory was at fault. Nevertheless, something ‘impetled him to look again toward the spot where the robbers had disappeared. Nothing alarming was visible in that direction, for the simple reason that he was facing it, The longer he looked and the more keenly he listened the sharper became his faculties and the warmer his blood. Whatever it was that finally roused him—whether it was a crackling so slight that an ordinary ear could not have heard it, or whether it was an instinctive sense of danger—it were profitless to inquire. He looked quickly about, and directly behind him, not ten feet away, were two eyes in whose glance he recognized some terrible menace. They were so near the gronnd, and the meaning within them so completely filled the field of view, that the lad saw them only, and not the head that neld them, nor the creeping body that lay suetced upon the ground behind them, nor a bright knife which a strong hand held so firmly. He saw only the eyes, and they were more terrifying than anything he had ever seen before in all his erippled and stunted life. He felt that they were something to be killed—a monstrous thing which had no place in the presence of beautiful gold and the gladsomeness of the morning. With an almost imperceptible movement his hand grasped the rifle, and with a re- lentless certainty he slowly turned as he satand brought the weapon to bear on the eyes as it lay across his legs. The face which held the eyes before him blanched, and lines resembling those of decrepitude came into it. No voice could be useful here—except, perhaps, ‘o hasten the end of the tragedy. It must be abso- lute silence and iminovability until such time as a hand should find its” way to the rifle’s hammer and a finger slip through the trigger-guard. After all, those things might not happen if beaven or hell give the prisoner strength to do nothing but wait. Were the others observing? Did they see the terrible plight of their leader? He chuckled, gurgled, | crooned and crowed, and shouted at, umes | ! rock to copnties Would they do so rash a thing as seek to saye him by attempting to divert the idiot’s attention and so precipitate the catastrophe? What wonderful things did not come trooping out of the open door of death and run riotously through the bandit’s head ? A clumsy thumb slowly felt along the barrel for the hammer, and its opposing forefinger as slowly crept along under- neath as it groped for the trigger-guard. The pallor in the prisoner’s faze thereupon became a dead gray, and asslowly and idiot’s thumb and forefinger itle barrel, a sure, strong ng firmer hoid of a knife, and powerful biceps were preparing for a masterful effort. There was perfect silence between these two—the idiot, who was master, and the strong and competent man, who was helpless—but no sound that either could have made, no word that either could have spoken, would have been so terrible as this deadly communion of silence between them. 5 It was a repeating-rifie that the idiot held. He had already fired a shot from it, and that had necessitated a throwing of the lever to eject the empty shell. The bandits had seen the idiot perform that feat with quick dexterity “when he had shot one of them in the shoulder, and knew that in doing so he had cocked the weapon. The one ray of hope that now shone in the' leader's heart was that the idiot had taken the precaution to let down the hammer after they had lefthim. To cock the weapon would require a second. One second was ali that the robber needed. With the bandit it was not now a matter of disabling the idiot with a knife-thrust through the arm; it wasa battle to the death, and his stout heart must not quaver under the superstition which had spared the boy’s life when he first intruded him- self. Nor could he for a moment permit himself to calculate the distance which his pursuers, sent forth by the law to seek his life, were lessening between themselves and him. To kill this unspeakable monster that hela his life on the touch of a finger was the present necessity, the only thing that could be thought of, the one idea upon which he must concentrate every faculty of his strong, clear mind. The interposition of the boy’s hand pre- vented a view of the rifle’s lock. The im- risoned man could not see whether the ammer was up or down. He could know that fact only when he should see the clumsy thumb begin to press on that potent bit of crooked metal. Meanwhile the grasp on the knife had been made sufficiently firm and the biceps were ready. With incredible swiftness the robber’s arm shot out, and a fine, strong knife—one of the kind made to kill—went flying through the air. It was a wonderful aim, for it had been calculated seemingiy through incredible ages and had been planned and judged for accuracy to the thousandth part of an inch. So true was it thav it found the boy’s throat, through which the knife passed till the guard was pressed hard against the skin. It was only the springing of a mine. In another moment a bullet was plowing its way through the robber’s body, having en- tered his mouth; it was the blow of the knife upon the idiot’s neck that had pressed the finger on the trigger; and the robber, whatever else might have hap- ened, had inairectly given himselt a eath wound. i The clattering of horses’ hoofs and the running of men to the scene of the tragedy followed the duel so closely that the d from heard: s torn mouth, were indistinctiy No man that ever murdered an idiot since the world was born has stepped out his boots off.” of this life with NOT OB PRINEE USES Crushed Rock From Folsom Can Be Had Only by Public Bodies. The Highways and Prison Commis- sions Settle Important Points at a Joint Meeting. A joint meeting of the State Board of Prison Commissioners and the State Bu- rean of Public Highways was held at San Quentin prison yesterday. Prison Com- missioner De Pue presided. The purpose of the meeting was to have a thorough understanding of the law on providing rock at Folsom prison for pub- lic highw to adopt measures looking toward an approximate estimate of cost of and also to definitely settle as to whom be sold and the cash obtained. Marsden Manson, C.E., of San Fran- cisco; J. L. Maude, C. R. E. Irvine of Sac the Bureau of Hizhway took an active part in the discussions, wiich were of interest to the whole State. Mr. De Pue remarked that he supposed the first thing r fine the authority for using the broken rock quarried at Folsom. He desired to have that point determined so that no con- tractors could use the rock for private pur- s, were present and 08 2 Marsden Manson said: ‘*‘A matter I re- gard as being very important is, what is Zoing to be the cost of the first half year's | production of rock? I'd rather we esti- | mated a little over cost, because it would be very difficult to get excess money back if we estimated below cost; whereas, oth- erwise it would be an easy matter for us to refund to contractors whatever small ex- cess there might be at the end of the six months. We have to operate and fix a price as it goes out, and we want to avoid, as far as possible, having counties owing the State without any definite fund to pay it from. We must cover the cost of pro- duction in the first half year and after that we can very easily settle small differences.” “The cost at the start is going to be far in excess of further operations,”’ replied Warden Aull. “Say 250 cubic yards at first would cost as much as 500 lateron. I can’t say what the cost will be.”’ Manson announced that Sacramento city and county, Stockton, San Joaquin and the State Capitol Commissioners were ready to take enormous quantities of the rock for roads. A discussion ensued as to what limita- tions should be placed on the sale of the rock 8o as to keep within the law, and it ended in theadoption of the following com- posite resolution, presented by Director Devlin: Resolved, That highway “metal” shall be sold only when to be used on public highways, #nd that every contractor doing public work shall be allowed to_purchase on certificate to tnat effect from the proper public authorities, at prices to be hereafter fixed, all Tock to be paid for before being shipped. Maude moved that Warden Aull of Fol- som be instructed to estimate the approxi- mate cost of crushed rock for the first three months and report thirty days be- fore operations begin. Aull replied that he would do as desired, but would cer- tainly make out an under-estimate for the meeting in Feoruary at Folsom. It was stated that all money recgived from the sale of rock must be paid to Aull. NEW TO-DAY. 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